By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Come April 27, Disobedience will open in movie theaters across the country. I think a better title might be Restraint. It is the story of Ronit, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, banished from her British community because she was discovered having a lesbian affair with a neighbor […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “Who really understands whether or not they are happy?” How do you know when you’ve found your bashert, the soulmate you were destined to share your life with? Some say you just know. But how do you find that one special person? Do you really have to share
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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Raise your voice up and prepare to mend a broken heart. –Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Welcome to The House of Love and Prayer where klezmer mixes with wild, invigorating drumming. Hippies dressed in yoga pants and adorned with love beads are freestyle dancing around a pretty groovy-looking ark. Hey,
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Happy Time Capsule Day! As you enter the lobby of the Lyceum, you may be greeted by Mayor Steve, Beachtown’s hip new mayor -who loves to surf and wears sandals with his powder blue suit- or any one of the charming “Beachtonians.” Unlike other theatre experiences in which
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — The ad in the paper for the show entitled “Tango in the Shadows” caught my eye, and since Yigal and I have long been aficionados of the tango in every shape and form we decided to buy tickets for the performance in Jerusalem. The fact that the event fell exactly on
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Jerry Klinger LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Max Henry Aronson was born March 21, 1880 at 813 Center Street, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was known as Max, sometimes, Gilbert, and not so often Henry, for a little more than twenty years of his life. Until he died in 1971, at 91,
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA“If I were perfect for you, wouldn’t you tire of me?” By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — The onslaught of information –and misinformation- in our digital age has us escaping into the past, specifically the turn of the twentieth century. That’s why Masterpiece Classics like Downton Abbey enjoyed such a devoted following. They let
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Jewish community member Janet Tiger will be among seven playwrights whose works will be presented May 4th, at 7:30 p.m. as the Scripteasers celebrates seven decades of new plays at its 70th Anniversary Showcase at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 2051 Sunset Cliffs Blvd. Mitch Feingold, another Jewish community member who is
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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Fourteen teachers from the San Diego Unified School District have been awarded a combined $11,000 in grants to pursue artistic projects with their students thanks to the new non-profit VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) Foundation. The newly established Foundation awarded teacher grants ranging from $500 to $2,500 during this inaugural
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Pamela Pollack-Fremd LA MESA, California — Honesty is not always the best policy. Or so that appears to be true in the Japanese film written by Atuko Hirayamagi and Boris Frumin. Ms. Hirayamagi also directed the film. Setsuko/Lucy (Shinobu Kutsuma ) is a dissatisfied middle aged office worker/tea lady. She is alienated from her
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — You don’t have to be Jewish to love Shlomo — but it helps. The biographical musical Soul Doctor tells the incredible story of real-life “singing rabbi” Shlomo Carlebach and his unlikely friendship with Nina Simone, the high priestess of soul. A smash hit off Broadway, this spirited San Diego production begins
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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Jimmy Kimmel hosted last night’s Academy Awards ceremony. It’s a common misconception that Kimmel is Jewish; in fact, he is Catholic. But he has had Jewish-themed comedy sketches on his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Which of the following was one of Kimmel’s Jewish bits? A. One of Kimmel’s regular bits is
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — A few years ago, I covered A Jewish Joke, a one-man show by local actor and writer, Phil Johnson of the Roustabouts Theatre, San Diego Magazine’s Best New Theatre of 2017. The show was conceived as part of the 5-Minute Play Festival at the JCC and developed from
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Mexican/American actress, Lizet Benrey, will take part in the upcoming San Diego Film Week. Two of her films will be shown on March 3rd and 5th. They are the short film, “NOTICE”, and the feature length film, “Carving a Life”. The San Diego Film Festival runs from March 1st
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Mimi Pollack, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast